Ojibway Tales literary criticism Lipsha seeks out his great-grandmother

Lipsha seeks out his great-grandmother for a magical solution to his romantic dilemma—on sacred ground where a federally sanctioned bingo palace is slated for construction

we can gain a fresh start and a new beginning

along with the rich stores of traditional ecological knowledge maintained by indigenous agriculturalists

Winner of the 2018 Minnesota Book Award for poetry

Jerry Sawanas grew up near Magnus Lake and is a Sandy Lake First Nation member from Northwest Ontario

Ojibway Tales literary criticism Lipsha seeks out his great-grandmotherThe Ojibway Indians' sense of humor sparkles through these stories set on the fictional Moose Meat Point Indian Reserve, connected by a dirt road to the town of Blunder Bay. If some of them seem "farfetched and even implausible," Basil L. Johnston writes, "it is simply because human beings very often act and conduct their affairs and those of others in an absurd manner." These twenty two stories were originally collected under the title Moose Meat and